How much Disney Plus cost and how does it work: from the price to the date of release, the registration and the types of subscription, up to the TV series and film catalog of the new streaming platform.
Disney +, Disney Plus bed, is the new platform dedicated to movies and TV series in streaming. The release is expected in 2019 but in India, it will arrive in the first few months of 2020: however catalog and price are no longer a mystery and Topolino’s house is ready to challenge Netflix. How does it work and what will be the subscription and registration methods?
Disney+ will have an affordable price and lots of movies and TV series ready to debut in the catalog at the time of release. The service will contain all the Disney classics, Marvel Studios and the Star Wars saga, as well as the new entries inherited from the acquisition of 20 th Century Fox.
The Disney+ project has already been announced for some time and is already in the domain reference localized also in India (a symptom of the fact that we will see Disney content in India ).
So Disney joins not only what has been put in place by Cupertino with its future Apple TV +, with its own dedicated streaming service, but also with Amazon Prime Video for what, in the coming months, could be called the streaming war. Let’s look at all the details together.
Dinsey +: how it works, price, subscription
The recent D23 Expo, an annual fair presenting the main Disney brand new products, will have a really advantageous price compared to the competition: 6.99 dollars.
This basic subscription includes the ability to create up to seven different accounts and the ability to simultaneously connect up to four users. Subscription in Netflix style, but more advantageous, since the subscribers will have the possibility to divide a subscription into four coming to pay less than 2 dollars per month (against the current 15.99 dollars of Netflix, which has recently increased its rates ).
To this basic subscription will be added, at least in the United States, a more expensive one that will expand the catalog with several additions coming from Hulu and ESPN+ (now present only at home) for $12.99.
To the forms of subscription are added the technical qualities: based on the film or TV series reproduced there will be the possibility of reproducing the contents in 4K with HDR. Considerable attention will be paid to audio, with Dolby Atmos.
Disappeared, for the moment, the reference leaked earlier about the $ 69.99 annual plan.
Cheaper than Netflix and with more content: this is the strategy of Disney+, with Iger’s goal of reaching 90 million subscribers by 2024 (Netflix, active as a streaming platform since 2008, currently has 139 million).
Disney+: when it comes out in India
As previously revealed, Disney+ will officially debut in the United States starting November 12, which will be followed a few days later by Canada and the Netherlands.
The reference period will serve Disney to test the economic potential and the response from users, while for India, there will be a few more months to wait, with the likely release in the first quarter of 2020.
Disney +: Marvel and Star Wars films and TV series in the catalog
It is always Bob Iger, to reveal that the Disney + streaming service will provide both many TV series and films belonging to the movie house (such as the much loved animation classics ) and will be able to count on some very popular brands like Marvel and Star Wars.
Battle horses not by little, if we think only of the films dedicated to Iron-Man and co. (box office champions and with more than twenty titles available to date), in addition to the complete Star Wars sagas (including spin-offs). These will be joined by all the Disney animation classics produced to date, as well as the Dinsey/Pixar films and National Geographic documentaries.
Disney has not been watching, and has moved during this year and a half by starting the production of original and exclusive TV series dedicated not only to the world of the two sagas mentioned above, but also setting up other projects for a total of 10 films and 25 original TV series in the first year, including: the remake of High School Musical, an animated series based on Monsters & Co. and all new films made specifically for vision on demand such as the live action remaking of Lilli and the Vagabond. Lizzie McGuire’s revival sequel with Hilary Duff is also expected.
Among the Marvel series we will have original projects focused on Loki, Wanda Vision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, She Hulk, a mini-series on Occhio D Falco (all with their respective protagonists of the cinema counterpart). As for Star Wars, we will see The Mandalorian, which was defined by Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man and the ive action dedicated to The Lion King) as similar to the first film in the Star Wars saga.
Among the 10 original projects ready since the debut of Disney+ we have:
- Marvel 616, anthological documentary series dedicated to the house of ideas;
- Earthkeepers, from the creators of Chef’s Table, which will see the lives of environmentalists and animalists close up;
- Be Our Chef, a cooking program that will challenge different families to create an original dish that will be included in the Walt Disney World menu;
- Cinema Relics: Iconic Art of the Movies, anthological series that will document the making of the most famous props in the Dinsey films (from Pirates of the Caribbean to Mary Poppins).
The TV series available on Disney+ will be distributed with one episode a week, as opposed to what applied by Netflix: no blocking seasons, but an episode to be seen released every seven days in a mode similar to that of TV broadcasting.
Disney + and Netflix: what changes
In the home of the official Indian website there are still not many details about the launch date, with the only possibility to subscribe to a newsletter addressed to possible updates, on which however the Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars logos appear in plain sight. and National Geographic (a sign that top quality documentaries will also be included in the catalog).
What will this mean for Netflix? In addition to an increasingly difficult challenge, with an increasingly competitive on-demand entertainment market, the streaming giant will have to say goodbye at the beginning of the year to all the Disney content in its catalog: a good shot if we also think about the recent acquisition of 20 th Century Fox, whose consequences are all to be evaluated.
To make up for it, in quotation marks, will be the users, forced to navigate between many different platforms depending on the desired content (finding themselves having to pay so many different subscriptions or fall back on piracy in some cases).
For the debut in India of Disney+ there is still no certain date, but its arrival is still expected next year.